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SUSE SLES12 Security Update : tomcat (SUSE-SU-2024:4075-1)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 212573

Synopsis

The remote SUSE host is missing a security update.

Description

The remote SUSE Linux SLES12 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the SUSE- SU-2024:4075-1 advisory.

 - CVE-2024-52316: Fixed an authentication bypass when using Jakarta Authentication API (bsc#1233434).

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the SUSE security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Solution

Update the affected packages.

See Also

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1233434

http://www.nessus.org/u?5170fb41

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-52316

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 212573

File Name: suse_SU-2024-4075-1.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 12/12/2024

Updated: 12/12/2024

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: High

Score: 7.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 10

Temporal Score: 7.4

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2024-52316

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.8

Temporal Score: 8.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:novell:suse_linux:12, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:tomcat-jsp-2_3-api, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:tomcat-lib, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:tomcat-servlet-4_0-api, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:tomcat-javadoc, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:tomcat, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:tomcat-el-3_0-api, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:tomcat-webapps, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:tomcat-docs-webapp, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:tomcat-admin-webapps

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/cpu, Host/SuSE/release, Host/SuSE/rpm-list

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 11/27/2024

Vulnerability Publication Date: 10/9/2024

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2024-52316

IAVA: 2024-A-0754

SuSE: SUSE-SU-2024:4075-1